₦airaland Forum

AMINDA:
Why not start with equity towards the Southeast? Is Tinubu not usurping the turn of the Southeast or does Southern turn only mean Yoruba turn? Southern turn but you all are preventing Igbos from voting in Lagos.

P.S: This was Reno Omokri, Tinubu's defacto spokesman today on Twitter.

we know that Tinubu’s only crime, is defeating the Igbo candidate in the general election.

Nigerians should have just dashed the position to Igbo people.

Simonsmg:
Is God that is punishing them , it’s only fools that are supporting Atiku , expired candidate. Nigeria need people with zero tolerance religiously. That’s our major problem in Nigeria

This your comment has been screenshot and it will be used against you, because soonest you will join the group of fools that supported Atiku.

AMINDA:
Disinformation. The unethical habit of lifting the opinions of supporters of a candidate from twitter and attributing them to the candidate needs to stop. There are many Yoruba Conservatives on Twitter advocating for Igbos to be banned from voting in the Southwest, no one calls them Tinubu's media aides.

Tinubu exploited religion and ran on muslim-muslim ticket in 2023. He wouldn't have done so if religious sentiment is not a factor in winning elections.

Don't mind people.

If Tinubu had chosen a Christian as a running mate, Atiku would have become president.

lexy2014:
the other clown Kwankwaso was talking about north and south.

can these people not come up with more engaging issues to use to criticise instead of always whipping up ethnic and religious sentiments?

the standard of measurement is good governance not appointments, religion or ethnicity



how is your attempt to whip up religious sentiments different from what the Atiku supporter has said?

They don't have anything reasonable to attack this government why because it's exact policies they promise to implement this government is implementing,so they have little or nothing to campaign with. It's only the gullibes that will be listening to them.

My concern about ADC is that they are trying to turn the 2027 election into 'North vs South', 'Christian Vs Muslim'. This is coming from a person who thinks APC did wrong with Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Nigeria is at risk.

APC and reverse psychology, it won’t work because Tilimbu must must go at all cost

If I write wetin dey my mind in response, Seun fo ban me patapata.....

But when intelligent people begin to stand logic on its head, you know say wahala dey. But no worries. Only one person can sit in aso rock at a time......and na PBAT dey there till 2031.

Make una write or say whatever una like......

AMINDA:
You mean same way Tinubu asked "where are the cows?" when he was asked to comment on the alleged killing of Yorubas by herdsmen? It's okay for Tinubu to throw his own region under the bus just to secure Northern votes but a sacrilege for Atiku to also pander to his base. Show me a single press release or statement by the person you alleged to be Atiku's consultant that can be directly attributed to Atiku.

The days of the Lagos-Ibadan media propaganda superiority are long gone.

Simonsmg:
Is God that is punishing them , it’s only fools that are supporting Atiku , expired candidate. Nigeria need people with zero tolerance religiously. That’s our major problem in Nigeria

The choice of a Christian chairman for APC is bcoz Tinubu wants to retain the Muslim Muslim tickets. It's strategic.

I knew then that Tinubu would make it up for Christians after the Muslim Muslim tickets.

seunmsg:
He is Atiku’s digital media consultant and speaks for him. A major campaigner for a candidate speaks the mind of that candidate. We all saw how Atiku quickly deleted the tweet about Deborah, the innocent Christian student that was killed by Atiku’s supporters in Sokoto state. Now, Abdul Aziz is already telling us the mind of Atiku towards Christians in government.

You know what you just wrote here is simply rubbish. Is like you guys want us to say the whole Yoruba race are bigotry, full of hate and trabalistic because a few Tinubu supporters and media personal were hateful towards the Igbos. We haven't forgotten what happened in Lagos State governorship election. They said Igbo people should note vote.
So because someone supporting Atiku posted what he posted you decided to include your own words. He said Muslim Muslim ticket produced all that. Where did he write all the other things you wrote. The other things are your statement not his statement.

Druss:
My concern about ADC is that they are trying to turn the 2027 election into 'North vs South', 'Christian Vs Muslim'. This is coming from a person who thinks APC did wrong with Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Nigeria is at risk.

Is Tinubu north turning 2027 to North versus South already. All the Southern governors decamping to APC are doing that for what. All the governors are saying that they will support Tinubu is that not a Southern agenda.

Don’t mind them, they’re looking for every way to make sure they get vote, and when they get there now of which they’ll never get there they’ll appoint Muslims and Christians too will start shouting, we Muslims ain’t complaining why is atiku and his yeye media boy talking for us?

seanfer:
Are those christians not Nigerians?
We need to stop looking at things from the angle of religion and ethnicity.

Are those people true Christian or just church goers?

AMINDA:
Why not start with equity towards the Southeast? Is Tinubu not usurping the turn of the Southeast or does Southern turn only mean Yoruba turn? Southern turn but you all are preventing Igbos from voting in Lagos.

P.S: This was Reno Omokri, Tinubu's defacto spokesman today on Twitter.

You are just trying to crudely whip up ethnic disaffection against the Yorubas by gaslighting the emotions of Igbos since you and most Northerners, and even Nigerians at large , know this is easy to do.

Let's look at the facts. When it was viewed to be the turn of the North in 2007, after OBJ, how many Southerners shouted it must not be Fulanis because that would not be fair to Hausa, Mumuye, Kanuri etal?

Did Southerners protest against Buhari, in 2015, to insist it is the turn of non-Fulanis ethnic groups to produce the President?

No. This is because the South, full of sublimely intelligent people, know the power sharing arrangement is between South and North.

When it is the turn of the North, it must be Northerners who must agree within themselves where power should be micro-zoned to and not for Southerners to gaslight or blackmail them over rhat decision.

The reason is that non but Northerners can make an insistent argument for meritorious micro-zoning of power to any region of the several, in the North, when power has to shift to the North.

Ditto when power shifts to the South. The Yorubas owe Igbos nothing unless Igbo build bridges and convince the Yorubas to support them. It is as simple as that.

You will see this principle proven to be accurate when it is the turn of the South in 2039, assuming Tinubu gains a second term, when the SW will support the SS, rather than the SE, to become President on the Southern slot.

What I confidently predict will happen is that the SS will get the support of the SW to produce the President of Nigeria haven shown the region is a more supportive and politically mature partner to the SW than the toxic SE that prosecutes politics always as if such is about hatred, ethnic bigotry, enmity, hurling of insults, defamation and malevolent toxicity towards others.

The SW , when it is the turn of the South, does not owe the SE any support or favours because they always proudly and unreservedly present themselves as our life-long political enemies who do not mean us well.

Yorubas own nothing to an SE that has remained, for decades, incapable of embracing mature politicking.

tunjijones:
Cry cry north.

Everything to Una na about religion

what is there to cry about.

Isn't the entire south crying about Muslim Muslim ticket.

Isn't Muslim Muslim ticket the reason a fraud like Peter obi got that much votes outside south east over a competent candidate like Tinubu with track records?


Let's all stop pretending like Christians and Muslims are not the problems when electing political candidates.

Exousiang01:
Well some people from the East say Tinubu is anti-christian and a religious bigot.

While Peter was inciting a religious war against Muslims, Tinubu who is a muslim has don more for christians than even his Muslim brothers, I am sure the people of southern Kaduna will support me on that.

Someone whose wife is a Christian and a pastor, just because of their hate they say he is a religious bigot....

Tinubu has done more for the church and Christians in Nigeria than the combination of Obi, Atiku plus any other opponent you can remember.

By the way, I am not his supporter. But if I were to vote from a bigoted political perspective as a Christian, I will pick Tinubu. At least I will feel safe that his government will not victimize the church. Tinubu's level of religious tolerance is impeccable.

Just imagine, are Muslims only the tye pooping Nigeria?

WizardOfNG:
Well-said. The poster you responded to eloquently is sadly, in my opinion, not a honorable person.

Him and his ilk are blindly behind Atiku whose ambition is divisive, fractious, toxic and capable of taking Nigeria on a road to perdition of no return.

The way Northern supporters of Atiku, who I must say are not speaking for majority of Northerners, are disdainful of the need for equity towards Southerners is plain shocking.

Reasonable Nigerians, wherever they may be from, recognise there is a need always to do right in the interest of what is best for Nigeria lest we find ourselves facing the horrible Rwanda ethnic internecine conflict the world never wishes to see a repeat of.

What the hegemonistic born-to-rule Northern supremacists fail to see, let alone defer to, is the sacrifice the South has made to keep Nigeria united and one.

There were many Southerners displeased with Buhari's first term and wishing it to end. Yet which Southern leader began a dishonorable and Machiavellian attempt to remove Buhari from office when the general consensus was that the North must have it's alloted eight years in power?

If the argument is that Tinubu has failed then all Northerners, if honorable and genuinely interested in doing what is in the best interest of Nigeria, should simply get behind any Southern candidate of their choice to remove PBAT and complete the eight years of the South.

Atiku and his fellow Northern born-to-rule supremacists are taking us into uncharted waters that will likely change Nigeria forever horrendously.

Many individuals , throughout history, like Hitler and Ojukwu for example, have malevolently and detrimentally altered the course of nations and lives of millions of people because of their own selfish ambition.

It is this consideration that will ensure Atiku's toxic born-to-rule ambition will be defeated. The North is full of a lot of dishonorable people but those are not in the majority and will be defeated, in my opinion, by honorable Northerners who know that the honorable conduct a man recieves from others must be reciprocated.

Same reasonable Northerners also accept, most importantly, that the concept of "one good turn deserves another" sacrifice must always be made to facilitate amicable coexistence of a patently divided, disunited and very different people who have , by twist of fate, found themselves lumbered together in a nation.

Once some do not note the importance of the need to compromise, then the 'union' is over.

El Rufai was exactly this type of honourable Northerner who believes in rotational presidency and works tenaciously towards it in favor of Tinubu, what finally happened to him?

Jonathan broke that rotational formula and nothing happened. So nothing will happen if Atiku broke it. After all Nigeria belongs to all. The East too must be considered in this southern equation. They are Nigerians as well.

Safyqueen:
El Rufai was exactly this type of honourable Northerner who believes in rotational presidency and works tenaciously towards it in favor of Tinubu, what finally happened to him?

Jonathan broke that rotational formula and nothing happened. So nothing will happen if Atiku broke it. After all Nigeria belongs to all. The East too must be considered in this southern equation. They are Nigerians as well.

Jonathan did not break the rotation formula. Fate, beyond human control, did. He already had 5 years in power, of what was felt to be the tenure of the North, because even Northern leaders grudgingly allowed him that 5 years knowing that it was Yar Adua's death that put GEJ in that position and not dishonorable behaviour.

It was when GEJ was seeking a second term that many felt he was overreaching and had go to appease the North.

That is why the likes of Tinubu, who had supported Jonathan to win in 2011, worked for Buhari in 2015 because of the understanding that if Jonathan got another 4 years in power, to make 9 altogether on behalf of the South, then that would surely have damaged the rotational arrangement seriously.

That is obvious because the South would have had 17 years in power (8 for OBJ and 9 for GEJ) while the North would have had 3 (via Yar Adua) since our democracy began in 1999. Only dishonest people will think that will happen without serious repercussion I will let others work out rather than state.

As for the East and the Presidency, Southerners don't tell the North where to microzone the Presidency to when It is their turn. We leave that to them as their right to do.

Same way the South should work on that internally too when it is the turn of the South rather than Igbo demand it, with threats and blackmail, as if it it their right.

Finally, Southerners supporting the North to usurp a term of four years from the 8 year of the South are myopically self-destructive, unprogressive and not focused on what is best for Nigeria and their generation unborn. I don't need to expand on that as those with a good grasp of critical issues know what I mean.

seunmsg:
He is Atiku’s digital media consultant and speaks for him. A major campaigner for a candidate speaks the mind of that candidate. We all saw how Atiku quickly deleted the tweet about Deborah, the innocent Christian student that was killed by Atiku’s supporters in Sokoto state. Now, Abdul Aziz is already telling us the mind of Atiku towards Christians in government.

What about ononuga several ethnic slurs and inciteful posts against igbos before and after the 2023 presidential election hope he is also speaking for tinibu?

seanfer:
Are those christians not Nigerians?
We need to stop looking at things from the angle of religion and ethnicity.

He should make comparisons with the situation under Buhari before we can take him serious.